Crankenstein

The communication between Scout ships and their Homeports was embedded into video images and sent to respective way stations located in each solar system. The codes for our particular ship were finally decoded from messages entitled "I love Lucy". The diagram shown here is a reproduction of what was apparently a detailed cue sheet for the last mission the ship was on when it was lost.
Once underway, these details would be projected onto the cylindrical section of the communications and guidance display for pilots to follow.

Most missions brought the ships into hostile environments and so light weaponry was mounted primarily to discourage close pursuit by lawyers, gangsters and thieves. The cloaking devices were usually not used because larger and faster 4-wheel transports using established shipping lanes could not see the smaller and usually slower scout ships. Collisions were always disastrous!